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by the time i get done paying bills, i don t have money to put food in the house. $15 an hour will help me out. this fight play out as the 2016 campaigns get under way today. hillary clinton in iowa meeting with a group of small business owners, and hitting that same theme. unfortunately, the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top. and we need to reshuffle the cards, and begin to play a different hand, a hand that includes everybody. it looks to be a key fight in this election. president obama called it the defining challenge of our time. it s a big issue for some progressives like elizabeth warren, who have been noncommittal about clinton s campaign. and now we re also starting to see it from republicans eyeing the white house, like chris christie, in new hampshire calling for cuts to social security, medicare, and medicaid. and marco rubio, attacking government spending and demanding that corporations pay less taxes. our debt which is a significant ....
questions and inevitably used all my question. i was going to ask that too so people come together and talk about what they interpret from a book and what the author s intentions were. share of book for next year. it is still logan. if you have any suggestions send them my way. for more information on booktv s recent visit to yuma, arizona and the many other cities visited by local content vehicles go to c-span.org/localcontent. up next on booktv jonathan rieder recounts dr. martin luther king jr. s letter from birmingham jail. jonathan rieder report on the effect the letter and the civil-rights movement and dr. king s believe in the urgency of the movement. this is an hour and 15 minutes. good evening. welcome. we are pleased you have joined us this evening. also want to welcome our good friends from c-span who are kidding tonight s program. it will be broadcast on booktv at a future time. also please note we have books for sale in the back and i am sure our au ....
0 it s about one thing. it s stopping president obama. that s all they are about. remember what that republican senator said about background checks? there were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it. that s no way to govern and the american people are not going to stand for it. joining me now is jim mcdermott, democrat from washington and executive editor of msnbc.com. thank you both for being here. thanks, reverend. good to be here. congressman, you know, it s about passing good laws and we would hope the gop would be about it. but they really went against the background check vote. as there been a lot of fallout there s nothing else to explain it besides getting rid of obama. democrats were helped by the gun vote. north carolina senator kay hagen, 52% more likely to support her due to the yes on background checks. mary landrieu, 44% support her vote on background checks ....